Willow Smith debuts “21st Century Girl”

Willow Smith’s new “21st Century Girl” video premiered Monday, and here’s the positive: The song is nowhere near as annoying as her previous caterwauls about whipping her hair back and forth. Improvement is key, right?

But here’s the negative: Until Smith calls herself “the type of chick that likes to rock the beat,” I would have believed someone who told me it was a Justin Bieber song. There’s no denying that this is the Auto-Tune generation.

Watch the video for yourself:

“Strange” is probably a good word to describe the video, with its old lady digging the tween out of the sand and the wolves that romp with Willow and her crew, but she’s still an unmistakably cute and sassy starlet. We can only hope she doesn’t ultimately follow the same path as former famous-parented mini-celebrity Miley Cyrus did.